The Many Days
Selected Poems of Norman McCaig
Published on 1. August 2013
128 pages
978-0-85790-780-6 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 2010 to mark the centenary of Norman MacCaig's birth, The Many Days aims to strike a balance between representing the much-loved poems that any reader would expect to find in a selected MacCaig, and other less familiar verses.
The collection is arranged to show the range of the poet's work in all its variety, from his love of nature and the landscape of the North West Highlands to his life in Edinburgh; from his care for animals and human friendship, to his moments of joy and grief, creative delight and occasional creative dread. Time and again MacCaig returns us to that good place we know as the world, but hardly ever seen so clearly as we do in these marvellous poems.
The collection is arranged to show the range of the poet's work in all its variety, from his love of nature and the landscape of the North West Highlands to his life in Edinburgh; from his care for animals and human friendship, to his moments of joy and grief, creative delight and occasional creative dread. Time and again MacCaig returns us to that good place we know as the world, but hardly ever seen so clearly as we do in these marvellous poems.
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'He said so much in so few words... He's perfect poetry to me' -- David Linklater * Boom Saloon *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Birlinn General
File size
0,46 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85790-780-6 (9780857907806)
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Persons
Norman MacCaig was born in Edinburgh in 1910. His formal education was firmly rooted in the Edinburgh soil: he attended the Royal High School, Edinburgh University and then trained to be a teacher at Moray House. Having spent years educating young children he later taught Creative Writing, first at Edinburgh University, then at the University of Stirling. He died in 1996.
Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Ineducable Me
- Ineducable me
- Climbing Suilven
- Sleeping compartment
- Lord of Creation
- Private
- Go away, Ariel
- Patriot
- Small lochs
- London to Edinburgh
- Portobello waterfront
- Journeys
- On a beach
- Bright day, dark centre
- On the pier at Kinlochbervie
- Emblems: after her illness
- Sargasso Sea
- By the Three Lochans
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- After his death
- Grand-daughter visiting
- To be a leaf
- Between mountain and sea
- One of the Many Days
- One of the many days
- Feeding ducks
- Goat
- Byre
- Fetching cows
- Blind horse
- Frogs
- Basking shark
- Wild oats
- Sparrow
- Blackbird in a sunset bush
- Ringed plover by a water's edge
- Dipper
- Toad
- Blue tit on a string of peanuts
- My last word on frogs
- Our neighbour's cat
- Gin trap
- Likenesses
- Likenesses
- Instrument and agent
- Summer farm
- Linguist
- Leaving the Museum of Modern Art
- Painting - 'The Blue Jar'
- Helpless collector
- No choice
- Recipe
- Also
- No end to them
- Landscape and I
- Among Scholars
- Among scholars
- Midnight, Lochinver
- Crofter's kitchen, evening
- By Achmelvich bridge
- Neglected graveyard, Luskentyre
- Moment musical in Assynt
- Two shepherds
- Aunt Julia
- Uncle Roderick
- The Red Well, Harris
- Country dance
- Return to Scalpay
- Praise of a road
- Praise of a collie
- Praise of a boat
- Praise of a thorn bush
- Fishermen's pub
- Off Coigeach Point
- Old Highland woman
- Two men at once
- Old Maps and New
- Old maps and new
- High Street, Edinburgh
- Celtic cross
- Crossing the Border
- Two thieves
- A man in Assynt
- Old Edinburgh
- Battlefield near Inverness
- Rewards and furies
- Queen of Scots
- At the Loch of the Pass of the Swans
- Characteristics
- From My Window
- From my window
- November night, Edinburgh
- Edinburgh courtyard in July
- Hotel room, 12th floor
- Last night in New York
- Antique shop window
- Milne's Bar
- Gone are the days
- Neighbour
- University staff club
- Edinburgh stroll
- Five minutes at the window
- Foggy night
- Balances
- Balances
- Equilibrist
- Spate in winter midnight
- July evening
- Visiting hour
- Assisi
- Smuggler
- Interruption to a journey
- Vestey's well
- Notations of ten summer minutes
- Intruder in a set scene
- Adrift
- Sea change
- Two skulls
- So many summers
- Sounds of the Day
- Small boy
- Old poet
- In That Other World
- In that other world
- Loch Sionascaig
- Descent from the Green Corrie
- Memorial
- Old man thinking
- From Poems for Angus
- Notes on a winter journey, and a footnote
- A.K. MacLeod
- Praise of a man
- Angus's dog
- In memoriam
- Her illness
- Myself after her death 1, 2, 3
- Found guilty
- A Man in My Position
- A man in my position
- Party
- Estuary
- Song without music
- Names
- Incident
- Perfect evening, Loch Roe
- Water tap
- Index of Poem Titles
- Biographical Notes
